Talk show host, Chelsea Handler who is currently chatting away on her show ‘Chelsea Lately’ on the E! channel, is switching to the web after agreeing an exclusive deal to head over to Netflix.

Netflix say that Handler will host a talk show on the streaming service starting in 2016, and making other original online shows before then..

Speaking about the deal, Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos said, “the Internet has disrupted many of the conventions of traditional television and together with Chelsea Handler, Netflix is looking forward to reimagining the late night talk show for the on-demand generation, starting with the late night part.”

Handler current talk show ends in two months, when she can concentrate on the move to the web. Netflix have said that the new show, “will feature an updated format that still encompasses Chelsea’s unfiltered opinions on topical entertainment and cultural issues, as well as her signature guest interviews.”

As well as the exclusive show Handler will also be making a stand-up comedy special set to stream this year on Netflix, as well as four specials coming in 2015.

For anyone in any doubt that you can get huge sums of money from being in reality TV, a recent list published by English celebrity gossip magazine Now revealed just how much the richest UK reality stars are worth.

The latest iteration of their ‘Reality TV Rich List’ Top 50 countdown, Now’s list appears to be inconsistent with the criteria for entry, but seems to generally be for people (or groups, it would appear) who have made their name in the genre on-screen in the UK either as a contestant, talent judge, or ‘cast member’, regardless of their outside activities (which in many cases was entirely responsible for their positions on the ranking).

While an answer for many people would be The Apprentice boss Lord Alan Sugar, making his name as a billionaire technology entrepreneur long before the 2005 BBC business show puts him out of contention, so it is unsurprisingly Simon Cowell, creator, producer, and judge on a number of TV talent shows over the years (including Pop Idol, The X Factor, Britain’s Got Talent, and the ill-fated gameshow Red or Black?) that leads the rankings, with Now’s estimates valuing him at £225m ($355m).

Cowell’s influence on the list does not stop at his name, though, with over half of the top 50 (all of whom are valued at over £1m) having made their claim to fame on one of his reality shows, as an estimated 25 were marked as having been a contestant on a singing contest (including shows that Cowell was not a part of such as Pop Stars: The Rivals), while other entries include 5 that became famous enough for the list via Britain’s Got Talent, 2 through business show The Apprentice, 1 from entrepreneurial series Dragon’s Den, and an astonishing 7 people who appear on mind-numbing ‘scripted reality’ shows such as The Only Way Is Essex and Made In Chelsea (with people from the latter thought to mainly be on the list due to their privileged backgrounds).

The details of some of those high placers reveal that the ‘best of the rest’ title below Cowell is one that could be claimed by either of his biggest names: opera singer Susan Boyle (worth £22m, ten times less than Cowell) or boyband One Direction (believed to be valued at £20m each, or £100m as a whole), while the highest-ranked celebrity that has no relation to Simon Cowell’s shows was 4th-placed reality TV personality/model/businesswoman Katie Price, said to be valued at £17.5m, even if a majority of people reading this will wonder why anyone would even pay a penny for most of the people in the ranking.

Now summarised their Top 50 breakdown with a prediction for the year ahead, noting that controversial X Factor contestant and Celebrity Big Brother winner Rylan Clark is on-track to break the £1m by the year’s end, and likely to feature in their 2014 list. For a look at the most ‘valuable’ reality TV assets for now, though, the Top 20 of Now’s list, along with what each person/group is most famous for in reality TV circles, is below:

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It used to be that to watch the performance of a popular stand-up comedian on tour, one would either have to actually attend, buy the DVD/video release, wait for the TV broadcast, or in the days of YouTube, wait for a show in full to appear on there by a generous user. In even more recent years, Netflix have become an option with a select range of stand-up options.

Many of these shows in their collection correlate to the DVD version, but in some cases they hold exclusive rights across all media, as they do to five new exclusive specials commissioned this month.

Adding to the range of original stand-up comedy at their global disposal, the selection of five later this year will be headlined by performances from Bill Cosby and Chelsea Handler.

Handler’s show Uganda Be Kidding Me Live is to premiere exclusively in all Netflix markets as of 10 October, featuring the closing show of her current tour, based off her best-selling novel of the same name, and witnessing her discuss humourous stories on her global travels.

28 November will be the date on which legendary comedian Cosby (pictured) has his show premiered, a special performance at the SF Jazz Center in San Francisco (USA) on his 77th birthday.

Additional shows commissioned by Netflix include Chelsea Peretti’s One of the Greats premiering 14 November, and Bill Burr with I’m Sorry You Feel That Way from 5 December.

The first glimpse of this new stand-up content, though ,will be of Jim Jefferies with BARE from 29 August, as the ‘provocative stand-up’ discusses “politics, fatherhood, orgies and Neil Diamond”.

While it is unlikely that this announcement will have single-handedly inspired any potential subscribers, will an increasingly vairied selection of content give Netflix even greater respect in the general entertainment industry?

In what would be a culmination of their efforts to try and be a strong presence in music as well as video, Google-owned sharing website YouTube have been busy promoting their first-ever annual ‘YouTube Music Awards’, an event which will add to the awards calendar in the music industry and serve as a competitor to the likes of MTV and their annual show.

The ceremony was first announced a month ago, with claims that across 6 categories (within which nominees are chosen by data from YouTube users, who will vote for the winner via video link sharing), the 90-minute stream will also look to draw in live and repeat viewers through guest performers including Lady Gaga, Eminem, Arcade Fire, performing with and alongside a number of more quirky acts which have found fame solely through the website, appearing at Pier 36 in New York City (USA).

Airing on 3 November, the show will include lead-in content of ‘hours’ worth of music and videos, including ‘pre-recorded performances’ filmed in Seoul (South Korea), Moscow (Russia), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and London (England).

YouTube spokeswoman Chelsea Maughan said to Mashable of the website’s intentions for the show: “Music is a huge part of what YouTube is and what YouTube has become to music fans around the world. The YouTube Music Awards represent the next step in terms of celebrating how big music is on YouTube. The YouTube Music Awards represent the next step in terms of celebrating how big music is on YouTube.”

Behind-the-scenes, the show will take on a big-name appeal in production, with the companies hired for the job being Sunset Lane Entertainment and Vice, whilst filmmaker Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich) will be the creative director of the show. Jonze summarised at the time of the announcement: “We’re setting out to create a night that’s all about making things and creativity in the spirit of everyone that uses YouTube. As well as giving out awards, we’ll be making live music videos. The whole night should feel like a YouTube video itself.”

With plans to demonstrate how critical their site has been to the music industry over the years, will YouTube soon have the most important accolade in the market, or will their latest ‘themed show’ fall into the background? The nominations of the 6 categories can be seen below, after the break of videos including the nominees for the biggest prize (‘Artist of the year’), instructions on how to vote, and the ‘odd one out’ of the 10 perhaps bringing a bit more attention to the non-primarily non-YouTube company they are mixed in with:

Video of the Year: Honoring the world’s most loved music videos, these nominees represent the videos with the most fan engagement on YouTube over the last year.

Demi Lovato – Heart Attack

Epic Rap Battles of History – Barack Obama vs Mitt Romney

Girls’ Generation – I Got A Boy

Justin Bieber (feat. Nicki Minaj) – Beauty And A Beat

Lady Gaga – Applause

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (feat. Mary Lambert) – Same Love

Miley Cyrus – We Can’t Stop

One Direction – Best Song Ever

PSY – Gentleman

Selena Gomez – Come & Get It

Artist of the Year: Honoring the acts YouTube fans have made stars, nominees represent the most watched, shared, liked, and subscribed-to artists on YouTube.

Eminem

Epic Rap Battles of History

Justin Bieber

Katy Perry

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Nicki Minaj

One Direction

PSY

Rihanna

Taylor Swift

Response of the Year: Honoring the best fan remix, parody or response video, these nominees represent the top “unofficial” fan videos on YouTube based on your views, shares and other activity.

Boyce Avenue (feat. Fifth Harmony) – Mirrors

Jayesslee – Gangnam Style

Lindsey Stirling and Pentatonix – Radioactive

ThePianoGuys – Titanium / Pavane

Walk Off the Earth (feat. KRNFX) – I Knew You Were Trouble

YouTube Phenomenon: Recognizing the YouTube trends the world could not escape from, nominees are based on the phenomena that generated the most fan videos.

Diamonds

Gangnam Style

Harlem Shake

I Knew You Were Trouble

Thrift Shop

YouTube Breakthrough: Honoring the music world’s breakout new acts, nominees represent the artists who experienced the biggest growth in views and subscribers.

Kendrick Lamar

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Naughty Boy

Passenger

Rudimental

Innovation of the Year: Starting with videos selected by an international panel of musicians, YouTubers and creative luminaries, we then selected the creative video innovations that resonated most with fans on YouTube, based on views, likes, shares and comments.

Alongside the ‘hardcore fans’ of popular singers or groups, up there as some of the most irritating people to hear speak are on the exact opposite of the scale, the ‘music snobs’ of this world. Of particular note in this genre are the ones that only listen to ‘underground’ or otherwise unheard-of bands, and seem to take any opportunity they can to let others in earshot know of their superior ear for music in general (even if it just gives everyone else easy ammunition to use the ‘pretentious’ label).

This even seems to occur when the band name in question isn’t real, after late night TV presenter Jimmy Kimmel used a Lie Witness News segment on his popular ABC show (Jimmy Kimmel Live!) to prank attendees at the Coachella Music Festival this year.

The latest in a long line of tricks on the public, a reporter for Jimmy Kimmel Live! was sent outside the festival to ask passers-by what they thought of a number of made-up groups, including ‘The Obesity Epidemic’, ‘The Chelsea Clintons’, ‘Doctor Shlo-mo and the GI Clinic’, and ‘Shorty Jizzle and the Plumber Cracks’, amongst others.

In completely stereotypical manner, the people responding gave full praise for the fake bands with the most generic answers possible in an attempt to protect their ‘reputation’, with claims of listening to them all the time, and knowing that they ‘give off a good energy’.

While there are many rumours that claim the video itself was faked (placing a voiceover journalist onto real interviews), it is a fun video nonetheless (that can be seen below), and even if it is not quite real, the results are not too far off what many people would expect from ‘hipsters':

While she can’t quite claim the title of ‘well-known face’ first and foremost, British royal family in-law Pippa Middleton does attract plenty of attention mainly for being the sister and bridesmaid of last year’s newly-crowned princess, and is set to continue cashing in on her celebrity by association for 2013, with American network NBC reportedly planning to give her a role as a ‘royal correspondent’ in spite of having no previous presenting experience.

Recruiters of The Today Show appear to be proving that it is often a case of who you know rather than what, banking on the Middleton name to bring in some more ratings whenever there is a Royal Family event that needs covering. Pippa Middleton, who works as a party planner by trade, is now said to be negotiating with NBC executives for the position, with the offer from the network believed to be a strong $600,000 (£400,000) to make around 20 appearances a year on the show to cover important annual events.

This list is set to include ‘public events’ such as the Buckingham Palace public opening and Chelsea Flower Show, but not private matters, such as her sister’s pregnancy news (and controversial media attention surrounding it), that ironically catapulted her previously-planned candidacy for the position back into contention, after interest had been lost following her low American sales figures for party planning book Celebrate.

A source claimed of the unusual plans, and how a lack of experience can be combated: “NBC senior figures will bill this job to Pippa as a special ­correspondent in 2013. They see her appeal as huge, as she is linked to the Royal Family, and because of her popularity following the wedding when pictures of her went worldwide. A couple of offers are on the table, but they would like her to make as many as 20 appearances reporting on Royal-themed events like the Chelsea Flower Show, the opening of Buckingham Palace and Opera House nights. She will not focus on intimate Royal matters like Wills and Kate’s move to London, Harry’s return from war and the family Christmas. The offer gives Pippa the chance to have editorial input on what she says, and, as most of this work would be pre-­recorded, she would not be caught out.”

While her sister Princess Catherine (The Duchess of Cambridge) yesterday helped to wind down a (mainly) positive year for the BBC and in particular their sporting coverage by presenting the main award at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year show last night (16 December, with the prestigious titular award won by Tour de France winner and Olympic gold medal-winning cyclist Bradley Wiggins, the first English recipient since 2006), Pippa Middleton could be set to move to the other side of the Atlantic to work for a network that had their reputation come out a fair bit worse for their coverage of the sporting summer in London (England). Will NBC viewers take kindly to the latest move?